| 1. | The Cilician Gates have been a major commercial and military artery for millennia.
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| 2. | The pass known in antiquity as the Cilician Gates crosses the range north of Tarsus.
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| 3. | They wintered at Afik, an unidentified location near the western exit of the Cilician Gates.
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| 4. | The site was of strategic importance as it controlled the northern exit of the Cilician Gates.
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| 5. | Heraclius hastily took the mountainous path and passing through the Cilician gates is reported to have said:
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| 6. | In conjunction with the inscription, there exist several milestones to the north of the Cilician Gates.
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| 7. | A series of edits that replaced and renamed Cilician Gates to current Turkish name ( Gulek Pass ).
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| 8. | With the campaigning season reaching its end, Romanos returned north via Alexandretta and the Cilician Gates to Podandos.
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| 9. | Heraclius hastily took the mountainous path and, passing though the Cilician Gates, is reported to have said:
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| 10. | Trade from Syria and Mesopotamia over the mountains to central Anatolia passed through here, through the Cilician Gates.
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